After a while, Zhu Chunshan appeared in everyone's sight again, but the look on his face was not very good, with a sad look on his face, as if he had encountered some difficult problem.
Seeing this, Mrs. Wen asked with concern: "Chunshan, what's wrong?"
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Zhu Chunshan sighed and said with a grimace.
"Sister-in-law, I'm afraid we have to stay here for a few more days. I just went to ask the boss of the ship, and he said that we can't leave for the next two days."
Wen Ta Niang was shocked when she heard this and said full of doubts.
"Huh? Can't leave?"
Zhu Chunshan nodded and said: "Yes, the boss of the ship said that the wind direction has been wrong these two days. Also, there is a war on the other side of the sea and the sea route is not easy to travel."
"What should we do?"
After all, Wen Ta Niang was just a rural woman. When encountering this kind of thing, she immediately panicked and lost her mind.
Faced with this situation, Zhu Chunshan had no particularly good solution and said helplessly: "Sister-in-law, let's wait. If we really can't walk by water, we can only take the dry road."
On the other side, Li Jie didn't feel much about the current situation. For him, there was no difference whether he was taking the land route or the sea route, they were all equally 'safe'.
He simply ignored the dangers encountered on the dry road.
Wen's mother sighed softly: "Then just wait."
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This wait lasted three days.
Three days later, still no ship has left the port, and more and more people are gathering on the pier.
"Sister-in-law, there is still no news."
In the past few days, Zhu Chunshan went out to inquire about news almost every morning, noon, and afternoon. However, the news he brought back was the same every time.
The boat can't sail for the time being!
It's almost the end of the month, and the weather is getting colder day by day.
Sad!
Winter has already entered Longkou in November, and at night it has begun to freeze outside.
However, the only two foot shops on the pier were already full of people, and even the woodshed was gone. Therefore, people like Li Jie and others who arrived later had to spend the night outside.
Fortunately, they took their winter clothes and quilts with them when they left. In addition, Li Jie also got some pieces of oilcloth and set up a small tent. Now they live in the tent at night.
Without this small tent, it would have been very difficult at night.
However, staying overnight is not the most critical issue.
The most important thing is that if we can't reach Liaodong as soon as possible, we will have a long way to go. After all, the winter in the Northeast is really cold, with temperatures of more than ten degrees below zero. If we encounter wind and snow again, we will not be able to travel at all.
If you accidentally fall asleep at night, you may not be able to get up the next day.
"Hey, where's the message?"
At this time, Zhu Chunshan suddenly discovered that the boss of the Zhu family was not near the tent, so he asked casually.
"Oh, the boss just went out. He said he was going for a walk and would be back in a while. What's wrong?"
Zhu Chunshan shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'll just ask."
In fact, Zhu Chunshan did not ask casually, but had another purpose. Considering the current situation, he thought that the ship might not be able to sail for a while.
Spending time like this is not the answer after all.
Since the sea route is not smooth, then take the dry route!
He came to Li Jie to discuss with him whether he should continue to wait for the sea route or give up the sea route and take the dry road.
Originally, taking the dry road was not part of Zhu Chunshan's plan. After all, it was too dangerous for the old Zhu family, old and young, to take the dry road.
However, the boss of the Zhu family gave him a big surprise.
The boss of the Zhu family can knock down more than a dozen Beards with his bare hands. With such strength, even if he takes the dry road, the risk will not be too high.
The only thing that worried him was that none of Lao Zhu's family had traveled far and were inexperienced.
'Oh, if that doesn't work, I'll give them another ride. '
Zhu Chunshan returned to Qilu this time for two main purposes. One was to tell the old Zhu family about Zhu Kaishan, and the other was to serve as the liaison officer for the Boxers in the Qilu area.
Strictly speaking, the former is only a private matter, while the latter is a public matter.
Longkou Pier.
Li Jie walked with his eyes and ears in all directions. In fact, he came out today not to wander around, but to look for someone.
The name of the person he is looking for is 'Xia Yuanzhang', who is the shopkeeper Xia of Yuanbao Town in the original work. At the same time, Xia Yuanzhang is also the father-in-law of the third child Zhu Chuanjie.
In the plot, Lao Zhu's family and Xia Yuanzhang met on the boat to Lushun.
At that time, the passenger ship was about to arrive in Lushun, but at this moment, the ship entered the sea area where Japanese and Russian ships were fighting. As a result, it was hit by artillery fire from both sides, and the sail was blown up.
In the late Qing Dynasty, civilian ships were still mainly sailing ships, which relied entirely on sea wind for power.
Without the sail, the ship can only drift with the current.
Then the ship floated and floated, but never landed. Most of the dry food brought by the passengers had been eaten, and Shopkeeper Xia was no exception.
Just when Shopkeeper Xia was about to starve to death, it was Lao Zhu's family who gave him a few mouthfuls of life-saving food.
Since then, the two families have formed an indissoluble bond.
Shopkeeper Xia was honest and compassionate, and he was also a person who knew how to repay his kindness. He never forgot the life-saving grace of Lao Zhu's family, and later recruited his second son Chuanwu and his third son Chuanjie into his own business. inside.
Later, Zhu Chuanjie, a smart, young and mature man, not only learned business management skills from Shopkeeper Xia, but also married his daughter.
Li Jie quite admired Shopkeeper Xia. Although he made some mistakes in the end, he was not essentially a bad person.
What's more, the other party is the third child's future father-in-law, so Li Jie doesn't mind helping him.
Shopkeeper Xia's wife and daughter are all in Lushun, and Lushun is now a place of right and wrong, where the Bear Country and the Sakura Country are fighting fiercely.
The most injured in wars are always innocent people, and the Lushun battlefield is a famous meat grinder. It is undoubtedly very dangerous for Shopkeeper Xia's family to still be stranded there.
In the Russo-Japanese War, the Battle of Lushun was the longest and most brutal battle, lasting as long as 11 months.
As the most important port on the Liaodong Peninsula, whoever controls Port Arthur can control the sea in the Far East.
As we all know, after the Sino-Japanese War, Port Arthur was occupied by the Sakura Kingdom, and we also know about the brutal massacre. Despite the intervention of Western powers, the Sakura Kingdom eventually handed over the Liaodong Peninsula to the incompetent Qing Dynasty.
But not long after, Lushun was forcibly rented by Mao Xiong again.
Mao Xiong controls Lushun, which means that Mao Xiong controls the sea in the Far East. He can threaten the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula when advancing, and he can defend Manchuria when retreating.
This is something that Sakura Country absolutely cannot tolerate!
After all, Sakura Country has long coveted Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula. If Mao Xiong actually controls these areas, then Sakura Country will lose room for expansion.
In the eyes of Sakura Country, the battle in Lushun had to be fought.
This battle is the one that determines the destiny of the country!
In order to win this battle, Sakura Kingdom once again used its traditional powers to block the country's destiny.
No matter how heavy the losses are, this battle must be won.
